safety device for women, elderly
New Delhi: The Government is developing a personal safety device which could be used to trigger alarm and send signals to pre-identified phone numbers in case of emergency. “This can be used by women and elderly citizens to trigger alarms and also send signal to pre-identified phone numbers,” Rajiv Gauba, Additional Secretary, Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, said. “We have roped in Indian Institute of Technology-Delhi and Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, Thiruvananthapuram for this project,” Gauba, who is associated with the e-governance group of the Ministry, said.
cheque bounce case trial at local court
New Delhi: The Supreme Court held that courts at places where a cheque is deposited for encashment can hear cheque bounce complaints. A Bench of Chief Justice P Sathasivam and Justice Jagdish Singh Khehar gave the ruling while setting aside an order of the Delhi High Court which had held that just because the cheques were presented in Delhi, the courts here will not have jurisdiction.
Naidu to grace ceremony in UK
New Delhi: Former BJP chief M Venkaiah Naidu will, on September 21, deliver a keynote address at the concluding ceremony of a year-long celebration by Indians in the UK to observe Swami Vivekananda’s 150th birth anniversary. Baba Ramdev and Baroness Sandip Verma, UK’s Minister of Energy and Climate Change, will be other speakers at the event.
ichamati river dredging nearly over
New Delhi: India and Bang-ladesh may have failed to sign agreements on sharing waters of Teesta and Feni rivers, but sccording to a Ministry update to National Security Advisor Shivshankar Menon at the PMO last week, dredging on Ichamati river to restore navigability and prevent flooding in Bengal and Bangladesh is almost complete.